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For the fans of boondocks.. here is a funny comic about guns and video games...
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Adult fears of new technologies. The Washington Post reported that 82 percent of Americans cite the Internet as a potential cause for the shootings. The Internet is no more to blame for the Colombine shootings than the telephone is to blame for the Lindbergh kidnappings. Such statistics suggest adult anxiety about the current rate of technological change. Many adults see computers as necessary tools for educational and professional development. But many also perceive their children's on-line time as socially isolating. However, for many "outcasts," the on-line world offers an alternative support network, helping them find someone out there somewhere who doesn't think they are a geek.
We are afraid of our children. We are afraid of their reactions to digital media. And we suddenly can't avoid either. Thee factors may shape the policies that emerge from this committee but if they do, they will lead us down the wrong path. Banning black trenchcoats or abolishing violent video games doesn't get us anywhere. These are the symbols of youth alienation and rage -- not the causes.
Analyzing a joke is like dissecting a frog; you can find out how it works, but you have to kill it in the process.
- Mark Twain
A 17-year-old Southeast Washington youth accused of shooting four students near Ballou High School opened fire from the sunroof of a passing car, according to charging papers filed yesterday.
Deidrick Johnson and others in the car had been seen a short time earlier driving near the school and shouting "Oy-Oy!" at people on the street, authorities said. "Oy" is a code word for the Barry Farm housing complex, where Johnson lived, the charging papers say.
Johnson is charged as an adult with assault with intent to kill in the Jan. 22 shooting outside Ballou. He is also charged as an adult in a drive-by attack Jan. 11 that injured five young people in Southeast Washington.